Ska Brewing Collaboration Tomorrow, Belgian-American IPA Recipe

Thomas Larsen, headbrewer at Ska Brewing Co. and I met up a few days ago to come up with a recipe for our Belgian-American IPA.

I don’t have much experience crafting beer recipes, but I told Thomas what I was hoping the beer would look, taste and smell like, as well as looked at some descriptions of malt and hops and this is what we came up with.

• 24.5 lb Pale Malt (2 row) US
• 3.0 lb Munich Matl – 20L
• 2.0 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine
• 2.0 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt – 80L
• .75 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) Hops (90 min)
• 1.75 oz Chinook Hops (30 min)
• 1.75 oz Simcoe Hops (5 min)
• 1.75 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) Hops (5 min)

According to BeerSmith, the program we used to craft the recipe this should give us about 56 IBU and 7.16% ABV. Thomas tells me we might not see quite that high ABV, but anywhere in the 6.5-7.5% range is fine by me.

We didn’t get to see all of the aspects of the program, but as far as I can tell Beer Smith seems like a good program for brewers looking to come up with recipes and gives quite a bit of information. I’ll likely look into it more when I start coming up with my own recipes for homebrewing.

I’m excited for the brew day tomorrow. I’ll be taking as many pictures and maybe even video and tweeting throughout the process, so follow BeerNBikes on twitter tomorrow for live updates. I’m sure to have a full plug post up afterwards about the brewing as well.

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